Tomorrow Will Always Bring You a Reason to Smile :) ...

... you just have to look (really hard, sometimes) for it. I'm not talking about compensating for the lost "things"; some of them are irreplaceable (and there are others that just seem so at the moment). But there is always hope, there will appear something, as little as it may be, that gives you strength and keeps you going. All you have to do is add these "somethings" up and turn them into an "it" worth remembering or living for.
I just found out that my final grade for the French Literature course is a B-. No, this is not a grade that would please me under different circumstances. I also got a B- in the French Translation course, for instance, and I can say I'm a bit disappointed, I was pretty sure I'd get more than that (it's all good, anyway, I was a bad student this semester... bad, bad, bad student!). It doesn't matter... I finished the most difficult course I've ever taken without moving in the "C" neighborhood. Who am I kidding? I thought I was going to fail this course. I don't know enough French for this level. I didn't prepare for any of my courses the way I should've. I wrote my essays between coffee, cigarettes, pictures and blogging breaks... at night. Yes, it may sound weird, but I'm proud - nevertheless, Ana, the sweetest little girl you'll ever see, corrected my final essay, which helped a lot. I'm not proud of the way I studied for my classes, but of the fact that, despite my low French level, my struggle with the 5 novels I had to read and my despicable attitude towards school this semester, I still got a B-! I stopped caring about grades the past few months, but this... this... it's not about the grade. It's that feeling of going up the hill through a snowstorm... and making it to the top, although you might be somewhat shaken, frozen, call it what you will. You made it! And, on top of that, you don't have to go downhill anymore. You simply know you won't.
I was also informed that my Spain bursary application was approved (yeah, until they see all my grades :D). And it only took them one day! People from Spain, did you hear that?